scholarly journals A Widely Spoken Lesser-Taught Language: Portuguese in British Higher Education

Author(s):  
Pedro Marques

This paper sets out to investigate the state of play of Portuguese language education in British Higher Education. Drawing on the cues provided by Portuguese studies lecturer Rhian Atkin in a 2016 talk, I bring together existing data on Portuguese language education in the UK, and promotional and academic discourses on what the Portuguese language is to argue that there is a gap between the fact that Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken languages and its relatively peripheral position in the economy of world languages. This perception gap prevents the development of policies grounded on local realities, and the strengthening of the rationale for the learning of the language.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Xalima Yuldasheva ◽  

This article analyzes the current issues of teaching the state language and solutions of teaching problems. Especially in the system of higher education, the meaning of scientific methodsand terms is revealed that bring students closer to the language of their specialization. Particular attention is paid to the importance of language education for the development of human spirituality and the improvement of methods of teaching languages. The higher education system prepares not only qualified specialists,but also future leaders. Future leaders will need to master and master formal style literacy. Therefore, a deep study of the official style -the Munshaot language is required. It is important to pay attention to documents that belong to a person, institution, enterprise


2014 ◽  
pp. 1745-1764
Author(s):  
Billy Brick

This paper seeks to assess the potential for Social Networking Sites (SNSs) to play a role in language learning in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector. These sites are characterised by certain features including learning materials, synchronous and asynchronous video and text chat facilities, a peer review feature, and some sites also incorporate an award system, in the form of points (http://www.livemocha.com) or ‘berries' (http://www.busuu.com). This serves to motivate participants by rewarding them for their progress and for their peer review activities. In order to consider if, or how, to integrate SNSs into the UK HE curriculum it is important to consider the views of practitioners and learners towards such sites and whether they consider them to have a potential role in HE language education. The paper will report on the outcomes of two small research projects which have sought to establish the view of both practitioners and students towards SNSs in the HE context. When considered overall the practitioners were more positive about the site than the learners.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janelle Reinelt

This statement started its life as part of the State of the Profession panel at the joint ASTR/CORD conference in Seattle (November 2010). I was asked to respond to the question of “how power has worked on/through/with bodies in the fields of dance and theatre studies, and in the academy at large.” I decided to speak about the serious crisis facing higher education in light of the economic recession and its particular challenges to the academy and our field, using my present context in the UK, where I have lived since 2006, as a case study.


2021 ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Гайна Абдулловна Арсаханова

Медицинские факультеты британских вузов предоставляют образование самого высокого качества и являются чрезвычайно привлекательными для иностранных студентов благодаря эффективным программам коммуникативной адаптации, что обеспечивает студентам, чьим родным языком не является английский, овладеть желаемой специальностью в англоязычной среде и, в дальнейшем профессиональной жизни, пользоваться всеми преимуществами принадлежности к общности, которая является носителем языка международного научного общения. В свете общеевропейских требований были определены особенности образовательных процессов в Великобритании. Характерной чертой образования в Великобритании есть понимание иноязычного профессионального общения как составного компонента иноязычного образования, которому присущи определенные закономерности, которые находятся в поле зрения специалистов и реализуют реформы ее содержания и технологии функционирования. Понятие профессиональное иноязычное общение  рассматривается как особая межличностная профессиональное взаимодействие в сфере информационно-познавательного контакта, которая предполагает обмен информацией с учетом возможностей познавательного и эмоционального воздействия на собеседника и особенностей речевого и поведенческого этикета носителей языка. Система высшего образования в Великобритании является сложной и имеет ряд характеристик, которые вообще не встречаются в других странах Европы. Во-первых, существует четыре системы, по одному для каждой административной юрисдикции Великобритании: Англии, Шотландии, Уэльса и Северной Ирландии. Сходство среди четырех больше, чем их различия, поэтому можно говорить о системе высшего образования в Британии», однако различия, однако, отмечаются и становятся все более и более популярными. В частности, Шотландия, которая всегда имела отдельную образовательную систему, приняла особый подход к организации образования на всех уровнях и, например, использует систему кредитования и квалификации, которая охватывает все уровни деятельности от среднего до высшего образования. Отношения между высшими образовательными системами Великобритании становятся все более сложными с 1997 года, когда она перешла к системе законодательства в Шотландии, Уэльсе и Северной Ирландии. The medical faculties of British universities provide education of the highest quality and are extremely attractive to international students thanks to effective programs of communicative adaptation, which ensures that students whose native language is not English, master the desired specialty in an English-speaking environment and, in the future of professional life, enjoy all the advantages of belonging to a community that is a native speaker of the language of international scientific communication. In the light of the pan-European requirements, the features of educational processes in the UK were determined. A characteristic feature of education in the UK is the understanding of foreign-language professional communication as an integral component of foreign-language education, which is characterized by certain patterns that are in the field of view of specialists and implement reforms of its content and technology of functioning. The concept of professional foreign language communication is considered as a special interpersonal professional interaction in the field of informational and cognitive contact, which involves the exchange of information taking into account the possibilities of cognitive and emotional impact on the interlocutor and the peculiarities of speech and behavioral etiquette of native speakers. The higher education system in the UK is complex and has a number of characteristics that are not found in other European countries at all. Firstly, there are four systems, one for each administrative jurisdiction of the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The similarities among the four are greater than their differences, so we can talk about the higher education system in Britain," however, the differences, however, are noted and are becoming more and more popular. In particular, Scotland, which has always had a separate educational system, has adopted a special approach to the organization of education at all levels and, for example, uses a credit and qualification system that covers all levels of activity from secondary to higher education. The relationship between the UK's higher education systems has become increasingly complex since 1997, when it switched to a system of legislation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.


1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy H. Hornberger

ABSTRACTIndigenous languages are under siege, not only in the US but around the world – in danger of disappearing because they are not being transmitted to the next generation. Immigrants and their languages worldwide are similarly subjected to seemingly irresistible social, political, and economic pressures. This article discusses a number of such cases, including Shawandawa from the Brazilian Amazon, Quechua in the South American Andes, the East Indian communities of South Africa, Khmer in Philadelphia, Welsh, Maori, Turkish in the UK, and Native Californian languages. At a time when phrases like “endangered languages” and “linguicism” are invoked to describe the plight of the world's vanishing linguistic resources in their encounter with the phenomenal growth of world languages such as English, the cases reviewed here provide consistent and compelling evidence that language policy and language education serve as vehicles for promoting the vitality, versatility, and stability of these languages, and ultimately promote the rights of their speakers to participate in the global community on and IN their own terms. (Endangered languages, immigrant languages, indigenous languages, language revitalization, linguicism)


1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Geoff Smith ◽  
Michael Clarke

The article contains the results of a survey (1991) into electro-acoustic music studios and courses in higher education in the UK. Not only is there an ever-increasing profile of information technology in music, but also unprecedented speed and scale of advances in music technology which question not only what is taught, but how. By surveying the state of the nation's studios and courses, the authors seek to suggest strategies for future studio- and course-design that take into account these rapid developments as well as the fast growing demand for studio access and tuition.


2015 ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
Robin Middlehurst

Reviews of governance and regulation have occupied three of the four countries of the UK in 2011-2014.  The debates, arguments and negotiations that underpin these reviews reveal different ideological positions about the role of the state, balances between accountability and autonomy and democratic participation in the governance of institutions by staff and students.  External drivers are also part of the picture as governments and institutions alike seek to position themselves in a changing international context. It is hoped that both the ideological debates and the operational solutions developed in the UK will have wider resonance for other countries and regions engaged in the modernisation, expansion, development or re-construction of their higher education systems.


Author(s):  
Billy Brick

This paper seeks to assess the potential for Social Networking Sites (SNSs) to play a role in language learning in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector. These sites are characterised by certain features including learning materials, synchronous and asynchronous video and text chat facilities, a peer review feature, and some sites also incorporate an award system, in the form of points (http://www.livemocha.com) or ‘berries’ (http://www.busuu.com). This serves to motivate participants by rewarding them for their progress and for their peer review activities. In order to consider if, or how, to integrate SNSs into the UK HE curriculum it is important to consider the views of practitioners and learners towards such sites and whether they consider them to have a potential role in HE language education. The paper will report on the outcomes of two small research projects which have sought to establish the view of both practitioners and students towards SNSs in the HE context. When considered overall the practitioners were more positive about the site than the learners.


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